WSOP Super Circuit Rozvadov: Lukas Pazma Leads the €1,000 Mini Main Event as a €253,000 Overlay Hands Players Free Value

Saturday morning at King’s Resort looked like it might turn into a headache for the organisers. Three of the five starting flights in the Mini Main Event were already finished, yet only 201 entries had registered against a seven-figure guarantee. The last two flights did a lot of catching up, with 217 players on Day 1D and 284 on Day 1E. That still left the event well short of the number it needed.

For the organisers that’s a bill to pay. For the 702 entries who showed up, it’s one of the best-value tournaments of the autumn. Here’s every number from the Day 1 flights, what the overlay actually means for each player, and who has the chips going into the business end.

The WSOP Super Circuit Arrives in Rozvadov

This is the first time King’s Resort has hosted a festival under the WSOP Super Circuit name. The series runs from October 28 to November 11, 2026, with 18 ring events and around €5 million in guarantees, according to pre-festival schedule coverage.

The venue knows WSOP poker well. It hosted WSOP Europe every autumn from 2017 until 2025, when WSOP Europe moved to King’s Casino Prague. This new stop fills that gap in the Rozvadov calendar. It’s also the European follow-up to the record-breaking Super Circuit debut in Canada in September.

Festival detail
Dates	October 28 – November 11, 2026
Venue	King’s Resort, Rozvadov, Czech Republic
Ring events	18
Headline event	€3,000 Super Circuit Main Event, €2,000,000 GTD (Day 1 flights Nov 5–7)
Mini Main Event	€1,000 buy-in, €1,000,000 GTD, 15% fee deducted from the prize pool
Next big event	€1,000 Mystery Bounty, €500,000 GTD (flights Nov 1–3)
Satellites	Mostly €150–€200 into the major events

The Overlay Explained: Why 702 Players Got a Bargain

This is the most useful part of the story if you’re a player.

The Mini Main charges €1,000, and the house takes 15% from the prize pool. With a €1 million guarantee, organisers committed to a prize pool of €850,000. To cover that from entries alone, they needed 1,000 players.

Overlay math	Amount
Total entries	702
Gross buy-ins (702 × €1,000)	€702,000
Prize pool money from entries (85%)	€596,700
Guaranteed prize pool	€850,000
Overlay paid by the house	about €253,300
Prize pool money per €1,000 entry	about €1,211

Figures are our calculations from the published entry count and fee structure.

In plain terms, every €1,000 buy-in is now backed by about €1,211 in prize money. The field as a whole is playing for more than it paid in, even after the fee. Overlays this size are rare at major festivals. They’re the main reason experienced tournament players keep an eye on running entry counts during late registration.

Why was turnout soft? Day 1B and Day 1C ran alongside two other ring events, and both flights stayed under 85 entries. Once the weekend crowd arrived, numbers jumped. Day 1E alone drew 284 entries, more than the first three flights combined.

For comparison, WSOP Europe’s €1,350 Mini Main at this same venue drew 1,293 entries in 2025 and 1,729 in 2023. The festival is new and the field was split across several ring events, so a step down is not shocking. It is, however, a clear sign that the €1 million guarantee was set for the old WSOP Europe crowds.

Flight-by-Flight Breakdown

Every flight used the same structure: 50,000 starting chips, 30-minute levels, the top 15% of each flight in the money, and the top 12.5% bagging for Day 2. Players who busted between those two lines collected a min-cash without advancing. That’s why 107 players were paid but only 86 bagged.

Flight	Entries	In the money	Bagged	Survival rate
Day 1A	40	6	5	12.5%
Day 1B	82	13	10	12.2%
Day 1C	79	12	10	12.7%
Day 1D	217	33	26	12.0%
Day 1E	284	43	35	12.3%
Total	702	107	86	12.3%

The survival rate barely changed from flight to flight, which shows how mechanical this format is. Field size made no difference to your chances of bagging, because the cut was always a percentage. What did change was stack quality. The two big weekend flights produced most of the deep stacks, because more entries put more chips on each table to win.

Who’s on Top

Slovakia’s Lukas Pazma bagged 1,308,000 on Day 1B and nobody caught him over the next three flights. Pazma is a familiar name in Rozvadov. He won the €350 Opener at WSOP Europe 2023, beating a field of 3,503 entries for €110,000. His runner-up that day was Hungary’s Andras Balogh, who min-cashed in Day 1E of this event.

On the weekend, Italy’s Demetrio Caminita ruled Day 1D with 918,000. Germany’s Sammy Truong went one better on Day 1E, crossing the million mark with 1,008,000 to move into second overall.

Day 2 opened at 5,000/10,000 blinds with a 10,000 big-blind ante, and levels grew to 40 minutes. Starting chips totalled 35.1 million across 86 players, so the average stack was about 408,000, roughly 41 big blinds. That puts the leaders in a commanding spot:

• Pazma started Day 2 with around 131 big blinds.
• Truong had roughly 100.
• The shortest stack, Tal Herzog of Israel with 46,000, had under five big blinds.

The field is truly international, with 28 countries represented among the 86 survivors. Germany leads with 18 players, followed by the Czech Republic (9), Romania (8), and Italy, Poland and Austria (5 each).

Mini Main Event – Day 1 chip counts (86 players)

Rank	Player	Country	Chips
1	Lukas Pazma	Slovakia	1,308,000
2	Sammy Truong	Germany	1,008,000
3	David Hu	Netherlands	980,000
4	Oleh Pritsak	Ukraine	966,000
5	Demetrio Caminita	Italy	918,000
6	Andreas Mages	Austria	909,000
7	Vasyl Pidhrushnyi	Ukraine	896,000
8	Karel Havelka	Czech Republic	880,000
9	Matti Liuksiala	Finland	873,000
10	Orhan Ljecaj	North Macedonia	821,000
11	Andrei-Alexandru Sasu	Romania	738,000
12	Bogdan Tilica	Romania	723,000
13	Filippo Ragone	Italy	705,000
14	Maximiano Mendoza	United States	690,000
15	Omer Kaya	Turkey	667,000
16	Martin Novak	Czech Republic	638,000
17	Fatos Haxhaj	Switzerland	609,000
18	Ondrej Drozd	Czech Republic	595,000
19	Aliaksei Chernak	Belarus	578,000
20	Fausto Tantillo	Italy	560,000
21	Mikkel Plum	Denmark	553,000
22	Florian Sarnow	Germany	533,000
23	Aleksandrs Zenkovs	Latvia	510,000
24	Adrian State	United Kingdom	508,000
25	Zdenek Zizka	Czech Republic	506,000
26	Kostantinos Chionidis	Greece	498,000
27	Said Gafarov	Ukraine	494,000
28	Bogdan Roman	Romania	486,000
29	Felix Schlott	Germany	480,000
30	Pawel Wojciechowski	Poland	476,000
31	Safwane Bahri	Tunisia	461,000
32	Darius-Valentin Neagoe	Romania	452,000
33	Dominik Kocian	Czech Republic	440,000
34	Mattia Melideo	Switzerland	432,000
35	Dean Tesler	Israel	431,000
36	Tomas Kolarik	Czech Republic	422,000
37	Petros Karadimos	Greece	401,000
38	Andre Winkler-Arnold	Germany	396,000
39	Daniel Olevsky	Israel	368,000
40	Luca Beretta	Italy	363,000
41	Martin Miklos	Slovakia	363,000
42	Daniel Brunnmayr	Austria	362,000
43	Marius Iftimia	Romania	358,000
44	Tomasz Kruglinski	Poland	354,000
45	Laszlo Janoszki	Hungary	353,000
46	Mousa Awad	Romania	346,000
47	Nicolai Striewe	Germany	315,000
48	Dimitrios Gkatzas	Greece	305,000
49	Tim Krist	Germany	294,000
50	Asko Muratovic	Austria	289,000
51	Thomas Boelting	Germany	281,000
52	Nico Wendlandt	Germany	281,000
53	Mateusz Hajman	Poland	261,000
54	Faramarz Safari	Austria	260,000
55	Yurii Zabrodotskyi	Ukraine	250,000
56	Yehonatan Behor	Israel	245,000
57	Teemu Jaatinen	Finland	244,000
58	Christian Schneider	Germany	237,000
59	Martin Rapp	Germany	237,000
60	Jaroslaw Sikora	Poland	225,000
61	Niko Schmitz	Germany	219,000
62	Catalin Moraru	Romania	217,000
63	Abdelhakim Zoufri	Morocco	205,000
64	Martin Surovec	Czech Republic	205,000
65	Lukas Neri	Czech Republic	198,000
66	Joan Crespi	Bulgaria	191,000
67	Christopher Campisano	Italy	190,000
68	Maurice Tan	Singapore	168,000
69	Mathias Falandys	Germany	168,000
70	Soraya Estrada Gonzalez	Spain	166,000
71	Tobias Haase	Germany	158,000
72	Ludwig De Saint-Etienne	France	157,000
73	Pawel Zawadowicz	Poland	157,000
74	Felix Seelentag	Germany	153,000
75	Abd Ghanim	Austria	150,000
76	Andreas Michelmann	Germany	146,000
77	Panagiotis Mavritsakis	Ireland	145,000
78	Samuel Ju	Germany	144,000
79	Traian-Costin Stanciu	Romania	143,000
80	Matthias Gude	Germany	129,000
81	Gerard Carbo Santamaria	Spain	122,000
82	Gerard Rubiralta Cortes	Spain	114,000
83	Daniel-Leon Knuth	Germany	109,000
84	Robert Bull	United Kingdom	92,000
85	Michal Schuh	Czech Republic	65,000
86	Tal Herzog	Israel	46,000

Payouts So Far: The Re-Entry Angle

Twenty-one players have already been paid after busting inside the money window of their flight. Each collected a min-cash of about €2,000–€2,050, roughly double the buy-in.

The list tells an interesting story about how flighted events are played:

• Robert Bull (United Kingdom) min-cashed in both Day 1B and Day 1C. He then fired again and bagged 92,000, so he’s already about €4,070 up with a Day 2 seat still in hand.
• Andreas Staschewski (Austria) also cashed in two separate flights.
• Mattia Melideo, Faramarz Safari and Soraya Estrada Gonzalez each min-cashed on Day 1D and then bagged chips on Day 1E. Melideo is sitting on a healthy 432,000.

Player	Country	Prize	Flight
Josef Pavelka	Czech Republic	€2,000	1A
Robert Bull	United Kingdom	€2,020	1B
Andreas Staschewski	Austria	€2,020	1B
Tim Reusch	Germany	€2,020	1B
Robert Bull	United Kingdom	€2,050	1C
Andreas Staschewski	Austria	€2,050	1C
Darko Percic	Serbia	€2,020	1D
Marcin Mroz	Poland	€2,020	1D
Matija Sinkovic	Croatia	€2,020	1D
Ciprian Paunescu	Romania	€2,020	1D
Mattia Melideo	Switzerland	€2,020	1D
Faramarz Safari	Austria	€2,020	1D
Soraya Estrada Gonzalez	Spain	€2,020	1D
Andras Balogh	Hungary	€2,020	1E
Denis Konev	Russia	€2,020	1E
Sarharib Karatas	Germany	€2,020	1E
Mladen Stojanovic	Croatia	€2,020	1E
Ioannis Angelou Konstas	Greece	€2,020	1E
David Lacasa	Spain	€2,020	1E
Berkan Munar	Turkey	€2,020	1E
Miroslav Zitka	Czech Republic	€2,020	1E

Practical Takeaways for Players at King’s This Week

• Watch the running entry count, not just the guarantee. When a guaranteed event is tracking well short late in registration, the expected value of entering goes up. The Mini Main is a textbook example, worth about €1,211 in prize money per €1,000 entry.
• Understand the gap between bagging and cashing. In this format, surviving to the money still pays even if you don’t bag. Near the bubble, short stacks can tighten up, but big stacks should pressure players who are desperate to reach that line.
• Plan your bullets. With multiple flights, firing again is allowed and sometimes smart. Robert Bull turned three entries into two min-cashes and a Day 2 seat. Decide your limit before you sit down so a bad flight doesn’t turn into an expensive chase.
• Don’t panic with a short Day 2 bag. A 46,000 stack is under five big blinds and needs a double quickly. Anything above 200,000 still had 20+ big blinds and room to play.
• Satellites are cheap routes in. Most qualifiers into the Mystery Bounty, Main Event and Super Circuit Championship cost €150–€200, a sensible way to take a shot at the €3,000 Main Event without the full buy-in.

What’s Next at the WSOP Super Circuit

The Mini Main final day is scheduled for today, November 2. We’ll update with the champion and the final table payouts once the ring is awarded.

Alongside it, the €1,000 Mystery Bounty (€500,000 GTD) got underway on Sunday. It has 40,000 starting chips, 30-minute levels and three starting flights, with Day 2 on Wednesday and the final on Thursday. After that comes the headline €3,000 Super Circuit Main Event, with Day 1 flights from November 5 to 7 and a final day on November 11.

Cash games run daily at King’s, starting from €1/2 No-Limit Hold’em and €2/2 PLO. All participants must use the WSOP Live app for registration, seat draws and updates. The full schedule is on kings-resort.com.

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